Volkswagen-Tracker

IMPORTANT NOTE: Because I currently don't own a VW, I won't develop this project any longer, but I will continue to review and accept pull requests.

Volkswagen-Tracker is a Python script to gather information about your Volkswagen. I initially created this tool to measure the mileage of my car in a Grafana dashboard, but decided to expand the project to cover other data as well.

It uses the unofficial API of the Volkswagen We-Connect (new Car-Net) Website, which means this application only works with We-Connect-enabled vehicles. All the data collected is stored in a database.

The API interaction itself is mainly based on the work of reneboer.

Features

• Collecting:
  • Mileage
  • Range
  • Charging status
  • Battery percentage
• Writing the gathered data to a database
• Supported database types
  • InfluxDB
  • SQLite
  • Local / CSV
• Docker integration

Roadmap

• Collect more information from We-Connect
• Guides for Grafana intergration

How-To

Docker

git clone https://github.com/FritzJo/volkswagen-tracker.git
cd volkswagen-tracker
docker build -t volkswagen-tracker .
docker run -e VW_USERNAME= \
           -e VW_PASSWORD= \
           -e VW_DATABASE_TYPE= \
           -e VW_DATABASE_HOST= \
           -e VW_DATABASE_PORT= \
           -e VW_DATABASE_USER=\
           -e VW_DATABASE_PASS= \
           -e VW_UPDATE_INTERVAL= \
           volkswagen-tracker

Alternatively use the docker-compose file that is provided with this repository. Simply edit the yml file, fill in your credentials and run the following command to start the application with a InfluxDB. The database will be exposed to port 8086 by default.

If you look for a complete solution (including Grafana), you can use the docker-compose.yml.grafana file to deploy everything at once.

docker-compose up -d --build

Parameters

Parameter	Description
VW_USERNAME	Your We-Connect Email.
VW_PASSWORD	Your We-Connect Password.
VW_DATABASE_TYPE	Select the database backend (influx, sqlite or local)
VW_DATABASE_HOST	The database host address. If you use Docker, this is the name of the database container.
VW_DATABASE_PORT	Database port (default is 8086 for InfluxDB).
VW_DATABASE_USER	Database user.
VW_DATABASE_PASS	The password for the database user.
VW_UPDATE_INTERVAL	Wait time between updates (hours).